Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your Jan. 28 article goes into great detail about the personal expenditures of the royal family and some of the skeletons that are in its closet. This treatment of the situation, which is as difficult for Americans to understand as our mores are for the Saudi Arab, is immature. There is no doubt that Americans are irritated by some Saudi laws, but it should be remembered that the Saudis might also be irritated by some American customs. It is, after all, their country. JOHN BOLES Assistant Professor Loyola University of Los Angeles Los Angeles...
...Duke of Edinburgh. Last week a London newspaper reported what palace officials had known for six months -that Mike and his wife were separating. Gossipists were prompt to link Parker's name (without foundation) to that of another woman, and the news was duly radioed to the royal yacht Britannia, on which both the Duke and Parker were approaching Gibraltar at the end of a four-month, globe-girdling tour of the Commonwealth. Soon afterward the palace announced that Parker had left his job, and the two old buddies said an unsmiling goodbye at Gibraltar...
Screams by Tea Time. Whether Parker had quit to protect the royal household, whether the Duke had sacked him, or whether the Queen had done the thing, no one would tell. Whatever the cause, the effect was a national wave of sentiment in favor of Mike Parker reminiscent of the emotional binge touched off two years ago by the unhappy romance of Princess Margaret and divorced commoner (and palace staffer) Peter Townsend. "Why," demanded Lord Beaverbrook's Express, for many years an ardent opponent of palace puritanism, "should a broken marriage be a disqualification for royal service? Until...
...their black-type indignation about the plight of Commander Parker, the British press was slow to recognize the gossip about the royal couple themselves, in which Mike was involved at about the third-paragraph level. Out of London one day clacked a dispatch to the Baltimore Sun from Mayfair Set Correspondent Joan Graham, reporting that Britons were troubled by whispers "that the Duke of Edinburgh had more than a passing interest in an unnamed woman and was meeting her regularly in the apartment of the court photographer." By London's teatime the Sun's sensational story was splashed...
...with other children ("The mischief done by bad boys and the things they may hear and learn from them cannot be overrated"), the future George V was also kept in virtual isolation. It was not until they were 13 that Edward VIII and George VI were sent to the Royal Naval College at Osborne. There Edward Windsor got his first taste of what a boy's world is like when some senior-termers poured red ink over his head, once banged a window down on his neck in "a crude reminder of the sad fate of Charles...